chat-rooms

Socket.io app for messaging with chat rooms

Features

• After entering the name user is joining new chat room
• There can be several chat rooms at the same time
• User can copy link to the room and send it someone for joining his room
• User can send text messages to the room and all its users will see the message
• Users can see who sent the message to the room and when
• Users can see who is in the chat room right now

Application run

Pre-Installation

Before running app locally, you must run MongoDB server locally on port 27017:

• Install https://www.mongodb.com/try/download/community
• Run mongod from the terminal, for example, "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.4\bin\mongod.exe" --dbpath="c:\data\db" database name will be chat_rooms_db

Installation

git clone https://github.com/asdasd-dev/chat-rooms.git
cd chat-rooms
npm run front-deps
npm run back-deps
npm start

After that server will be loaded on localhost:8080 and client on localhost:3000